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seen some experiments with patent manures but didn’t 
consider them a success. He found in manuring that it 
didn t cost him any more to produce forty and fifty 
bushels of corn than to produce thirty and forty. He used 
to fatten a great many cattle, and found that corn raised on 
land that would produce 120 and 125 bushels was much 
better than coi n raised where the yield was less. The 
meal was always worth more. It was the same with 
pasture land. He kept account of every thing in his busi¬ 
ness. He knew just what -his expenses were. He had 
found that in buying cows for thirty and forty dollars he 
had made a hundred dollars. He thought this was on 
account of rich pasture. Had found in pasturing that a 
forty-acre field, where it Ras well manured, would keep 
much more stock than if it was poorly manured. It paid 
to keep your land manured well. This year he had raised 
some corn on surface-manured land and got 120 bushels to 
the acie, and thought that this corn was worth more than 
any raised on poorer land. 
Patten : Would differ a little from Bishop. He 
thought that manure drawn out in piles served as a mulch 
and kept land from drying out. 
, Cahoon : His agricultural paper said that good tillage 
was manure, and he agreed with it. 
Lawrence : Thought if we could get our manure on 
before it heated we would derive the greater benefit from 
it. 
Bishop : Raised a good deal of grain. His barn¬ 
yard had been covered very deep with manure. He drew 
out when the summer work was over, and it heated in the 
fall. He would just as lief have a load of such as that 
which came from the stable. 
